```Boy.--Dicky-bird, dicky-bird,
`````whither away?
```Why do you fly when I wish you to
`````stay?
```I never would harm you if you would
`````come
```And sing me a song while you
`````perch on my thumb.=
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```Bird.--Boy, I will sing to you
`````here in the tree,
```But pray do not come any
`````nearer to me;
``For your open mouth and eyes big and bright
```So fill my poor heart with
`````the wildest affright.=
``Boy.--I love you, dear dicky, why should you fear!
```If you'll come with me, my sweet pretty dear,
```You shall live in a house of silver so gay,
````And feed on a lump of white sugar each day.=
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```I love the fresh air, the sunshine so free,
```My swing in the rose-bush, my home in the tree.
```My birdies are calling me, so I must fly,
```And sing as I leave you, Good-by, good-by.=
--NELLIE M. GARABRANT.
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